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Using Twitter? Friend me up!
Apparently, Twitter is really starting to take off. I’ve been on it for about 6 months now, yapping away in to the twitter void. It’s got a tech heavy following, but over the past month or so, Twitter has really started to take off with the non-tech folks. Twitter can be many different things to many different people, which is why it’s so cool. I use Twitter in a few different ways:
- Throw-away blogging, it’s for the kind of things you don’t want laying around on your blog, archived for posterity sake, and picking up negative comments years later (example)
- It’s the best way to have any question imaginable answered promptly
- Kinda like a passive IM chat room or IRC channel, where you get to pick who’s messages you get to listen in on
Twitter is pretty bad ass and I just thought I’d put a post out there (mostly for the benefit of you rss headz). Friend me up, if you’re a twitterer.
FFFFOUND! is very cool. Its like del.icio.us but only for images (design, photography, illustration), a social-bookmarking site dedicated to imagery. Lots of great stuff up there. now if they can somehow bookmark embedded images from flash-based photography websites, that’d be super cool. [via PlasticBag]
Melvin has coined a new Web 2.0 phrase: Facebook Application Fatigue (or ‘FAF’ for short). Definition: Fatigue that is the result of adding too many applications to your Facebook profile page. Applications often enhance ways in which your Facebook friends can taunt you and generally waste your time, when you could be watching videos on You Tube.
I used to kinda get sour at my friends for emailing me through sites like myspace, friendster and now facebook. but it suddenly occured to me that doing so keeps my email inbox curiously cruft-free. and all these dumb/cute/little throw-away conversations aren’t taking up precious hard drive space. the downside is that i get a million-n-one emails from facebook saying that so-n-so has answered my message, so my original point is moot anyway. get back to work.
